The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 77
‘To the palace of Ringu, the house of the sea god, whose subjects we all are,’ answered the turtle.
Who acts: palace · What happens: answer · To what, where: turtle
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (palace), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 palace | punct |
| 2 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 palace | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 palace | det |
| 4 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 answered | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Ringu | case |
| 6 | Ringu | Ringu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 palace | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 house | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 palace | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 god | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 god | det |
| 12 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 god | compound |
| 13 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 house | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 subjects | punct |
| 15 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 16 subjects | nmod:poss |
| 16 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 god | conj |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 are | nsubj |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 we | det |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 subjects | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 palace | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 palace | punct |
| 22 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 turtle | det |
| 24 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 answered | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the palace of Ringu and the house of the sea god and the sea god and subjects's subjects | the turtle | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent turtle=Eventuality |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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